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Levin: No, Cohen’s hush money payments are NOT ‘campaign finance violations’
The National Sentinel ^ | 8/22/18 | USA Features

Posted on 08/22/2018 6:48:34 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher

In the clear: Once again, official Washington is all aflutter over the prospect of “getting POTUS Trump” after special counsel Robert Mueller got eight of 18 convictions against former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a guilty plea from Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer.

While news of both legal developments hitting on the same day may seem like a big blow against POTUS Trump, especially the claim that Cohen’s hush money payments to a former porn star and Playboy bunny at the direction of his former top client could amount to campaign finance violations, talk host and author Mark Levin, head of Landmark Legal Foundation and former Reagan Justice Department official, warned POTUS supporters to calm down.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: campaignfinance; marklevin; michaelcohen; presidenttrump
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1 posted on 08/22/2018 6:48:34 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
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To: SleeperCatcher

Why does the media continue to say he paid off a playboy bunny? He did not pay her. I thought the enquire paid her. Did Donald Trump then in turn pay the Enquire?

Also, he paid Stormy Daniels by check. He reimbursed his attorney for the money. Where does it say the money came from the Trump campaign?

You really have to dig to find the truth these days esp on the networks, Fox included, where they continue having these guys and gals on there who don’t know what they’re talking about.


2 posted on 08/22/2018 6:52:52 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Trump w/ Cabinet to the press:"You're free to stay or to go, as I believe in a free press." lol)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Fox”s Juan ,’Rat_, Williams , has a stuffy ...


3 posted on 08/22/2018 6:54:29 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Enjoy the SUCK! , 'Rats ..)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Convictions on activities which all predated Trump, were known to the FBI and which they failed to inform the candidate at the time.

Oh, but that doesn’t make headlines.../s


4 posted on 08/22/2018 6:55:23 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: SleeperCatcher

Fox”s Juan ,’Rat_, Williams , has a stiffy ...


5 posted on 08/22/2018 6:55:25 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Enjoy the SUCK! , 'Rats ..)
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To: SleeperCatcher

The news cycle turns over every 96 hours. Manafort and Cohen will be far in the past by Labor Day. Then Muller will face the same pressure to poop or get off the pot.


6 posted on 08/22/2018 6:56:01 AM PDT by lurk
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To: SleeperCatcher

heard Levine last evening. I think the ‘take away’ was, if Trump used his own money to pay her, that’s not a campaign violation. The violation would only occur on how the paperwork was done - something Trump didn’t handle.


7 posted on 08/22/2018 6:57:28 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Hollie - Remember in November)
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To: SleeperCatcher
In this world of legal settlements, the cheaper than litigation crowd of check waiving lawyers have numbed my senses to Cohen's plea deal.

Sorry, New Yorkers moguls. I will stick with President Trump.

By the way, where is that pup, Jeff Sessions?


8 posted on 08/22/2018 6:57:46 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: SleeperCatcher

Dershowitz agrees, this isn’t a crime. However, the media like NorDUH O’Donnell and her hate filled anti-Trump brethren will report this, again, like the end of his Presidency as they have wished for since his election.

The media are Left-Wing hate filled anti-Trump activists and they are corrupt, they will keep lying for another 6.5 years.


9 posted on 08/22/2018 6:57:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SleeperCatcher

BBC had an Idiot from NPR on and he said Cohen is willing to also testify about Trump and collusion with the Russians ,LOL


10 posted on 08/22/2018 7:01:12 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“By the way, where is that pup, Jeff Sessions?”

By the way, where is that puke, Jeff Sessions?


11 posted on 08/22/2018 7:04:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ptsal

LOL! Just noticed the “Trump Farms” on the milk carton.


12 posted on 08/22/2018 7:04:43 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: SleeperCatcher

What a joke of an attempt at gaslighting. In a few days time Trump will have the Ds ensnared again in a farce of their own making.

FTR McDougal is far better looking, Men’s Journal bothers me with a free copy on occasion and she for just some reason was the feature exercise chick of the month with her too tight bottoms.


13 posted on 08/22/2018 7:05:26 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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And Cohen/Davis are running a gofundme scam.


14 posted on 08/22/2018 7:06:19 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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Hillary will pay threw Gofundme ,LOL


15 posted on 08/22/2018 7:07:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SleeperCatcher

obozo was caught red-handed wit $350,000 in illegal campaign contributions.

BIG SURPRISE! He got a had slap.

Sauce for the goose.


16 posted on 08/22/2018 7:11:43 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: SleeperCatcher

but Maxine using it to pay her family is


17 posted on 08/22/2018 7:14:04 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: 11th_VA

My understanding so far, is that Cohen paid it and then submitted falsified bills to the campaign in order to be reimbursed. I don’t see how that gets anyone in trouble except Cohen.


18 posted on 08/22/2018 7:14:34 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nikos1121

The goal of all news outlets is to capture your attention, get you to watch or pay. It’s always been “If in bleeds it leads!” So there’s no incentive to be stone cold accurate and there never had been !

I bet you thought the media was all about keeping you informed!

My personal preference for media, would be text on the screen & I will read it. That still gives them great power! The power to report or not report! If tis not reported did it happen?


19 posted on 08/22/2018 7:17:20 AM PDT by Reily
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Having Cohen plead guilty to a non-crime as a crime was likely part of the deal. The Left can now use Cohen as a bludgeon to hit Trump. Isn’t it just a bit odd? There are 42 million lawyers in this country and Cohen hires Lannie Davis, the Clinton’s personal lawyer. What are the chances.


20 posted on 08/22/2018 7:18:46 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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